will an update to yosemite be wise? or other? advise please?
I'd primarily want to update so I can use sketch up pro (student version) need higher than 10.7 - otherwise I've survived fine without an update.

will an update to yosemite be wise? or other? advise please?
I'd primarily want to update so I can use sketch up pro (student version) need higher than 10.7 - otherwise I've survived fine without an update.

will an update to yosemite be wise? or other? advise please?
I'd primarily want to update so I can use sketch up pro (student version) need higher than 10.7 - otherwise I've survived fine without an update.

ps budget conscious options welcomed.

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I had a 2009 2.26 GHz MBP that had 4 gb of RAM. I replaced the battery and the hard drive (with a cheap 500 gb HDD) and gave the machine to my sister who just needs the machine for word processing and web browsing. It was upgraded to Yosemite. Does it open applications super fast? Well, no... but it isn't any worse than any other machine that is still using a HDD. It was running fine.

That being said, I'm not sure your computer running the OS is going to be the problem... the problem will more likely be the ability of the processor/gpu to run the application you are wanting to use. (I don't know anything about the application, so take that with a grain of salt.) You can always downgrade if you decide you don't want to use Yosemite.

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